Mike London well remembers his football playing days on the Peninsula and the way in which head injuries were often treated. "You'd get your bell rung," Virginia's head coach said, "and you'd go to the sideline. The coach would grab your face mask and ask how you're doing. You'd say OK, then he'd smack your helmet and say, get back in there." Old Dominion coach Bobby Wilder said he is certain that he suffered three concussions during his college career as a quarterback at the University of Maine in the mid-1980s. "The doctor would hold up a couple fingers and ask how many fingers am I holding up," Wilder recalled. "If you...

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